Maybe by the time the braves are good again they will make me want to go to their Cobb county stadium, but for now I still have no plans to make that trek. Fuck that stadium and the racist twats who won't let the trains run up to it.

There wasn't a goddamn thing wrong with the Ted, and the Ted was ACTUALLY IN GODDAMN ATLANTA! You could look out over the outfield and see the ATL skyline! The saddest thing about the new one is they have like three or four buildings right up against the stadium in a pathetic attempt to recreate that view, or remind you of it. They're the kind of buildings that are made to look big, but aren't. It's fucking sad and stupid and a gigantic waste of public funds.

The place also suffers from what I guess a lot of ultra modern parks do: you don't *feel* like you're at a ballpark until you're in your seat. It just feels like walking around a weird shopping mall.

The Ted used to run a special where you got unlimited concessions (ok, big deal) and unlimited beer (!!!) in a special section. The seats were really high up, but not bad at all and the kegs were right behind the seats so you didn't miss any action getting a refill.

A group of my friends and I used to make a day of that once a year and we did it for many years running. We called it Caligula Baseball and it was great and OF COURSE THIS NEW BULLSHIT STADIUM DOESN'T DO THAT

The year that Caligula Baseball day coincided with the Braves' alumni softball game was just too much! They turned the taps on for the softball game, which was about 6 or 7 innings I think? Then kept them on for the game itself.

Goddamnit. Now I want a plastic cup of cold, shitty beer and a hot day watching baseball.

My biggest annoyance is that they want to make going to a baseball game a day-long family event when it used to be something you could just decide to do an hour before the game. The summer my wife and I started dating we had Sundays off together and most home games we took the train in, bought the cheapest seats available, and stood out in the outfield bar The Chop House. It would cost maybe $20+ each, more if we drank a lot. Now it cost like $25 to fucking park there. Baseball in Atlanta used to be a city thing that you came in for. Now it's a goddamn mall that you buy packages for. It's been gentrified in the worst ways like the rest of the fucking city.

My biggest annoyance is that they want to make going to a baseball game a day-long family event when it used to be something you could just decide to do an hour before the game. The summer my wife and I started dating we had Sundays off together and most home games we took the train in, bought the cheapest seats available, and stood out in the outfield bar The Chop House. It would cost maybe $20+ each, more if we drank a lot. Now it cost like $25 to fucking park there. Baseball in Atlanta used to be a city thing that you came in for. Now it's a goddamn mall that you buy packages for. It's been gentrified in the worst ways like the rest of the fucking city.